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Port Blair gets a name change: Sri Vijaya Puram it is

Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Friday. IMAGE: President Droupadi......

2 held in Port Blair for leaking defence secrets to Dubai woman

Two contractual employees of the highly protected naval ship repair yard in Port Blair were arrested for allegedly passing sensitive information about the Andaman and Nicobar Command to a......

Port Blair Airport Gets New Terminal

Prime Minister Narendra D Modi virtually inaugurated the new terminal building of the Veer Savarkar international airport in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Tuesday,......

Probe finds Andaman smugglers contacted India, used Starlink for navigation

A probe into the biggest drug haul of 6,000 kg methamphetamine in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has shown that the Myanmarese smugglers were using the Starlink satellite internet services for......

Coast Guard seizes 6,000 kg methamphetamine

In a major anti-narcotics operation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) seized a vessel with six Myanmarese crew carrying 6,000 kg of contraband Methamphetamine near Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an......

Airlines warned against steep fares for flights to J&K, NE and Port Blair

Jet has pulled out flights from Northeast states and also cancelled its Srinagar flight, leading to reduction in capacity. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The Directorate General of Civil......

Port Blair-Pune SpiceJet flights soon

Domestic budget airline, SpiceJet, will introduce air services from Chennai to Port Blair and to Pune from the October 5, a top airline official said on Tuesday. It would also start operating to......

E-com fireworks in rural India this festival season

India’s e-commerce giants, led by Flipkart, Amazon, and Meesho, are making a strategic push into Tier-II and —III cities and rural regions, where demand for online shopping is surging......

Why Port Blair may soon lose 'major port' tag

On June 1, 2010, under Indian Ports Act, 1908, govt declared Port Blair as 13th major port in India Port Blair may soon "officially" lose the tag of a major port, granted to it seven years ago, as......

Port Blair, Phuket in tourism pact

In a unique arrangement the capital city of Andaman and Nicobar islands has joined hands with Thailand's beach resort of Phuket to promote tourism, trade and commerce in the two popular tourist......

'Veer Savarkar is an anti-propaganda film'

'I owe it to Veer Savarkar, to his spirit, to his legacy and to his untold story so that I tell it well and it reaches people, and people absorb it and feel what he went through and all the......

Kaala Paani Review: Slow-Paced 'Thriller'

The earnestness of the actors keep Kaala Paani from drowning, observes Deepa Gahlot. Kaala Paani makes all the right au courant noises, particularly significant after the COVID pandemic. Set in......

Ananya's Working Weekend

Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar met these stars over the weekend. Please click on the images for a better look at the stars. IMAGE: Ananya Panday, seen here at a......

Kangana Pays Homage To Savarkar

A day after she received the award for Best Actress at the National Awards in New Delhi, Kangana Ranaut flew to Port Blair to pay homage to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at the cellular jail in the......

Vicky Kaushal was born to play Udham Singh

Regardless of its commercial success, as an Indian, one needs to watch the story of this unsung hero, notes Syed Firdaus Ashraf. The Sardar Udham trailer has come at a time when the national......

SEE: PM Modi flags off first-ever torch relay for Chess Olympiad

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the torch relay for 44th Chess Olympiad, at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi, Sunday, June 19, 2022. Indian chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand,......

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